Table 1 Primary speech functions resulting from intersection of commodity type and initiating role type Information Goods & services Give statement offer Demand question command.
Differences were apparent in the structure of the discourse, Questions, Commands, vocabulary and the teacher-student relationships.
Initiating utterances are classified according to whether they are Statements, Questions, Commands or Offers, along with their expected or discretionary responses (Halliday & Mathiessen 2004, pp. 108 110).
In relation to Tenor, PSTs were also introduced to Speech Function (Derewianka 2011, pp. 110 114), enabling them to identify Statements, Questions, Commands and Offers, and to examine the form in which these functions were expressed.
There are significations corresponding to predicates, as well as to sentences of all kinds: both simple and molecular propositions (axiômata), but also questions, commands, oaths, suggestions, prayers, and so on (Sextus Empiricus Adv. math. VIII 71-3; Diogenes Laertius VII 66-8).
Requests may be expressed as questions, commands, statements, or conjecture".
And those economists who are prepared to express strong opinions on such inherently ambiguous questions command rapt attention.
The chain without question still commands respect among affluent travelers, travel agents say.
"Ask Jason a question!" she commands.
At the same time, musicians should not question your commands or musical ability.
